Differentiate direct and partner licenses

Updated October 05, 2018 13:16

What's in it for you

Your company might work together with partners and resellers that use your content to promote your products.In Showpad's Online Platform, you, as an administrator, can see the license type for your users in a dedicated column. This helps you to identify direct and partner users easily.

To use this feature, you need the channel package activated. When activated on your organization, your users have a Direct license type by default.

The channel package allows you to add an unlimited number of partner licenses. Direct license types users are always limited.

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Key features

Distinguish partners and direct users

See the license type of a user in the License Type column

Direct and partner licenses have the same functionality in the Showpad apps

Have unlimited partner licenses

Direct license types are limited

Add a license type when creating new users

Change the license type for a single user

Bulk change license types for multiple users

Administrators will always have a direct license type

You need this to succeed

Administrator access to Showpad's Online Platform

Promoted Division Member with Manage Users and Groups permission

Channel package activated for your organization

The quick way to awesomeness

Create new users with the assigned license type

Update a single user with a new license type

Bulk change license types by selecting users

Do this step by step

Create new partner users

Open the Users tab in Showpad's Online Platform and select Create New User.

Fill in the user details and select Partner as a License Type. By default, it is set to Direct.

Note: An administrator will always have a Direct as license type.

You can see the number of Direct licenses and Partner licenses on top of the screen. With the channel package activated, you have an unlimited amount of licenses.

Change the license type for a single user

Open the Users tab in Showpad's Online Platform and click the user you'd like to give a new license type. Click Edit.

Scroll down in the right pane and switch to Direct or Partner. Click Update.

Change license type for existing users

Open the Users tab in Showpad's Online Platform and select the users you'd like to give a new license type.